Voice of the Day: Kathleen Norris
10-20-2009
Even when the psalms are at their most ecstatic, they convey holiness not with abstraction but with images from the world we know: rivers clap their hands, hills dance like yearling sheep. The Bible, in Benedict’s hands, had a concreteness and vigour that I hadn’t experienced since hearing Bible stories read to me as a child.
- Kathleen Norris
American poet and writer, describing her first encounter with the Benedictine guide for monastic living
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